Max Planck Award

Beatriz Aragon, a first year PhD student in the department, has been awarded a 2-year doctoral researcher position with stipend at the Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. The award will help fund her PhD research about Roma minority and their interactions with healthcare services in Madrid.

The Max Planck Institute is located in Gottingen (Germany) and carries out interdisciplinary social science research on diversity in historical and contemporary societies, particularly concerning ethnic and religious forms and dynamics. The institute is leading a European pilot project about medical diversity which Bea's work will contribute to directly. 

More information about the institute can be found at www.mmg.mpg.de